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No records have been found to establish the relationship between John (Grimwade p.304, 340), William and Ann Laithwait (Grimwade p.333) all of whom entered marks at Goldsmiths’ Hall from 104 Gray’s Inn Lane in 1778, 8th April 1788 and 30th June 1790 respectively. John had died on 3rd April 1788. Als...

Hello Maurice Yahoo has a listing which suggests Desmond Coke's collection was sold by Sotheby & Co on 22nd July 1931 and there was a catalogue printed. The label suggests the item could have been part of the sale. Perhaps the auctioneers can help by reference to their catalogue archive to say w...

More information for some of the York residents named in the previous posts: ROBERT WARD He was born about 1829 in Helmsley in Rydale, Yorkshire. He appears in the 1851 UK Census as a working jeweller living with naturalist David Graham and his wife in Jabbergate, York. He married Ellen Baines in Yo...

The Will of Christopher Canner, goldsmith late of St Vedast, London, was proved for probate on 17th January 1708 (National Archives reference PROB 11/499/209).

The Will of Henry Burdett, goldsmith late of London, was proved for probate on 10th September 1836 (National Archives reference PROB 11/679/60).

He may have been the son of Alexander Johnston of Long May, “North Britain” who applied for freedom by redemption in the Goldsmiths Company in 1766. The document is noted “jeweller”. He was assessed to Land Tax from 1767-76 on property in St John Zachary precinct, identified as Carey Lane by other r...

Robert Owen, goldsmith of Foster Lane, made an oath in 1704 on behalf of Henry Jay aged 30 years of All Hallows parish, Lombard Street that Jay intended to marry Mary Hazlewood of Norwich at St Leonard, Shoreditch. The document seems relevant to Henry Jay the goldsmith because Owen was also in the s...

The Will of Walter Brind, goldsmith late of Foster Lane, Cheapside, was proved for probate on 26th July 1796 (National Archives reference PROB 11/1277/219).

The Will of Samuel Bourne, goldsmith late of St Vedast, London, was proved for probate on 3rd January 1738 (National Archives reference PROB 11/687/17).

William, the son of William Jacques who was master of the Clockmakers Company in 1716, is listed on page 170 of Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World as apprenticed in 1716 and free in 1724. He was probably the W Jacques who entered a mark in 1725 at Goldsmiths’ Hall from Angel Court, Snow Hill a...

He was christened in 1702 in Westminster, the son of Robert and Elizabeth Jacques. Apprenticed in 1717 to his father of the Clockmakers Company he was made free in 1726. He entered a mark in the same year at Goldsmiths’ Hall from Elliott’s Court, Little Old Bailey probably as a case maker. He marrie...

The testimony of Andrew Thompson in the case heard on 26th October 1826 and referred to in the previous post states that Humbert had, by then, been dead for 2 months. It would appear that the F Humbert listed until 1831 in Land Tax assessment books in respect of properties in Oxford Street refers to...

Oddly enough pages 642-3 of Grimwade's book note that a Samuel Roberts of various addresses in London registered marks on his own account at Goldsmiths' Hall from 1818-25 which were somewhat similar to those above. No connection is made with the Sheffield silvermith of the same name. Solomon Royes e...

The Will of Thomas Boulton, goldsmith late of London, was proved for probate on 15th January 1740 (National Archives reference PROB 11/700/108).

The Will of Cornelius Bland, late of St Luke’s, was proved for probate on 5th September 1794 (National Archives reference PROB 11/1249/136). The Will appears relevant as a mark was entered on 16th September 1794 from his previous business address in Bunhill Row by his wife Elizabeth and his son Jame...

Edward senior He was born in 1672 the son of Edward and Jane. He married Mary Gatton of Bicknor, Kent in 1705 and they had at least nine children, including their son Edward christened at St Martin in the Fields in 1705, and others christened at St Edmund King and Martyr, London between 1711 and 17...

He entered a mark in 1808 at Goldsmith’s Hall in partnership with Frederick Comtesse as gold workers at 34 King Street, Soho. He married Henrietta Huguemin at St George, Bloomsbury in 1809; they were both from that parish. Two of their children were christened at St Anne, Soho in 1810 and 1812. His ...

A candidate for the SW mark applied to the spoons assayed in Edinburgh in 1852 is Samuel Weir. Edinburgh AO website identifies him active from 1847-63 after which Samuel Weir and Sons took over. The website also records that Weir entered a maker’s mark on 2nd March 1847 but does not provide an image...

The Will of Anthony Blackford, goldsmith late of London, was proved for probate on 8th December 1715 (National Archives reference PROB 11/549/259).

The Will of Christopher Binger, jeweller late of St Pancras, was proved for probate on 3rd September 1805 (National Archives reference PROB 11/1430/264).